Snow, bitterly cold temps to return this week

NEW PHILADELPHIA Snow and bitterly cold temperatures will be returning to the Tuscarawas Valley this week.

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By Staff/wire report

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By Staff/wire report

Posted Jan. 20, 2014 at 4:05 PM

By Staff/wire report

Posted Jan. 20, 2014 at 4:05 PM

NEW PHILADELPHIA Snow and bitterly cold temperatures will be returning to the Tuscarawas Valley this week.

The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh has issued a winter weather advisory for Harrison and Guernsey counties through 4 p.m. Tuesday. Accumulations of 2 to 5 inches are predicted.

Other parts of the region should see snowfall totals of 1 to 3 inches.

Once the snow ends, the chill will begin.

The weather service is forecasting a low Tuesday night for the New Philadelphia area of around 1 degree, with wind chills as low as minus 10.

Highs Wednesday will be near 12 degrees and Thursday near 16. Lows both days will be in the single digits.

Much of the northern U.S. will be effected by this latest arctic blast.

Temperatures plunged below zero in North Dakota and northern Minnesota on Monday morning. The cold front was expected to sweep south into Iowa and as far east as Maine by tonight, and remain entrenched through Thursday.

The bitter blast will lead to a swath of subzero temperatures, with highs in the single digits and wind chills of minus 20 or colder, said Paul Collar, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

"It's not to the extent of the last outbreak but it's still bitterly cold," he said, referring to the recent polar vortex that sent temperatures plunging well below zero across much of the country and was blamed for at least a dozen deaths.